Books Quote by Francois Rabelais

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

— Samuel Johnson

“Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–however it may come, these minds will give…

— George Eliot

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles…

— John Stuart Mill

“A necessary condition for interior peace, then, is what we might call goodwill. We could also call it purity of heart. It is the…

— Jacques Philippe

“Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled…

— Thomas Sowell

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

— Albert Camus

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Be blessed with an honest character, true heart. Wise, dignified people who value honesty stir away from dishonest, corrupt schemers. Great reward is not…

— Angelica Hopes

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

— Thomas Nagel

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

— David W. Orr

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

— John Kenneth Galbraith